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Planning and Management of Charging Facilities for Electric Vehicle Sharing

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Electric vehicle (EV) sharing has experienced rapid development and has served as a flexible and environmental friendly means for urban transportation. However, charging an EV sharing fleet is still a challenge for business operators because of limited or costly access to charging facilities. In this chapter, we focus on how to charge a fleet to make EV sharing viable and profitable. Adopting the real data of car2go, we propose a queueing network model to characterize how customers endogenously pick EVs according to energy levels, as well as the implementation of a charging-up-to policy. In order to solve the proposed nonlinear optimization program, we develop mixed-integer second order cone programs as tractable lower- and upper-bound formulations. These models lead to practical insights related to charger resource availability and locations, EV charging policy, battery technological advancements, and urban spatial structure.

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  1. NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Long He

  2. Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Guangrui Ma

  3. Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Wei Qi

  4. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Grainger Institute for Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Xin Wang

  5. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Shuaikun Hou

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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

  2. University of Macedonia & Le.D.R.A. Group, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stamatina Th. Rassia

  3. Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Arsenios Tsokas

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He, L., Ma, G., Qi, W., Wang, X., Hou, S. (2022). Planning and Management of Charging Facilities for Electric Vehicle Sharing. In: Pardalos, P.M., Rassia, S.T., Tsokas, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Optimization Tools for Smart Cities. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 186. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84459-2_8

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